Resource for your new school year — list of historical fiction by time period
Ancient History (4000 B.C. – 400 A.D.)
Luke’s Quest by Caroline Dale Snedeker
The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare
The Golden Goblet by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
God King: A Story in the Days of King Hezekiah by Joanne Williamson and Daria M. Sockey
The Cat of Bubastes: A Tale of Ancient Egypt by G.A. Henty
Adam and His Kin: The Lost History of Their Lives and Times by Ruth Beechick
Twice Freed by Patricia St. John
The True Story of Noah’s Ark by Tom Dooley
Pharaoh’s Boat by David L. Weitzman
The Trojan Horse by Emily Little
Aesop’s Fables
Martyr of the Catacombs: A Tale of Ancient Rome by James De Mille
The Last Days of Pompeii by Sir Edward G. Buller-Lytton
The Lost Queen of Egypt by Lucile Morrison
Theras and His Town by Caroline Dale Sneaker
Ben-Hur by Lew Wallace
Medieval/Early Renaissance (400 – 1600)
The Black Arrow by Robert Lewis Stevenson
The White Stage by Kate Seredy
Kenilworth by Sir Walter Scott
Quentin Durward by Sir Walter Scott
The Talisman by Sir Walter Scott
The King’s Fifth by Scott O’Dell
By Pike and Dyke by G.A. Henry
By Right of Conquest by G.A. Henty
The Door in the Wall by Marguerite de Angeli
The Apple and the Arrow by Conrad Buff
Adam of the Road by Elizabeth Janet Gray
The Trumpeter of Krakow by Eric P. Kelly
Hawk That Dare Not Hunt by Day by Scott O’Dell
Ink on His Fingers by Louise A. Vernon
The Minstrel in the Tower by Gloria Skurzynski
A Medieval Feast by Aliki
A Year in a Castle by Rachel Coombs
The Story of Rolf and the Viking Bow by Allen French
Son of Charlemagne by Barbara Willard
The King’s Shadow by Elizabeth Alder
Master Skylark by John Bennett
Twice Queen of France: Anne of Brittany by Mildred Allen Butler
Black Fox of Lorne by Marguerite de Angeli
Lost Baron: A Story of England in the Year 1200 by Allen French
The Red Keep: A Story of Burgundy in 1165 by Allen French
St. George for England by G.A. Henry
Judith of France by Margaret Leighton
Journey for a Princess by Margaret Leighton
The Scottish Chiefs by Jane Porter
Otto of the Silver Hand by Howard Pyle
Men of Iron by Howard Pyle
Later Renaissance/Early Modern (1600-1850)
The Little Marquise: Madame Lafayette by Hazel Hutchins Wilson
Waverly by Sir Walter Scott
Rob Roy by Sir Walter Scott
Peveril of the Peak by Sir Walter Scott
The Wreck of the Grosvenor by W. Clark Russell
John Holdsworth, Chief Mate by W. Clark Russell
Daughter of the Mountains by Louise Rankin
Within the Capes by Howard Pyle
The Rose of Paradise by Howard Pyle
Tom Brown’s School Days by Thomas Hughes
Calico Bush by Rachel Field
Soft Rain by Cornelia Cornelissen
The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
The Deerslayer by James Fenimore Cooper
Five Bushel Farm by Elizabeth Coatsworth
The Far-Off Land by Rebecca Caudill
Drums by James Boyd
Toliver’s Secret by Esther Wood Brady
Madeleine Takes Command by Ethel C. Brill
The Courage of Sarah Noble by Alice Dalgliesh
Benjamin Franklin by Ingri and Edgar Parin d’Aulaires
The Fourth of July Story by Alice Dalgliesh
Squanto, Friend of the Pilgrims by Clyde Robert Bulla
The Pilgrims of Plymouth by Marcia Sewall
The Matchlock Gun by Walter D. Edmonds
A Lion to Guard Us by Clyde Robert Bulla
The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare
Johnny Tremain by Esther Hoskins
Amos Fortune, Free Man by Elizabeth Yates
Peter the Great by Diane Stanley
Mr. Revere and I: Being an Account of certain Episodes in the Career of Paul Revere,Esq. as Revealed by his Horse by Robert Lawson
Brady by Jean Fritz
If You Lived With the Iroquois by Ellen Levine
If You Sailed on the Mayflower in 1620 by Ann McGovern and Anna DiVito
The Story of the Pilgrims by Katharine Ross and Carolyn Croll
The Lewis and Clark Expedition by Richard L. Neuberger
Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham
Ben and Me: An Astonishing Life of Benjamin Franklin by His Good Mouse Amos by Robert Lawson
The Cabin Faced West by Jean Fritz
George Washington’d World by Joanna and Genevieve Foster
The Landing of the Pilgrims by James Daugherty
The Great Little Madison by Jean Fritz
Tree of Freedom by Rebecca Caudill
A Dog of Flanders by Louise de la Ramee
I, Juan De Pareja by Elizabeth Borton de Trevino
The Hoosier Schoolmaster by Edward Eggleston
Treasure of the Revolution by Mary Virginia Fox
The Colonials by Allen French
The Mutineers by Charles Hawes
The Dark Frigate by Charles Hawes
Wreck Ashore by Basil Heatter
Justin Morgan Had a Horse by Marguerite Henry
Head to the West by Carol Hoff
The Story of Grizel by Elizabeth Kyle
This Dear-Bought Land by Jean Lee Latham
The Wreckers by Iain Lawrence
The Smugglers by Iain Lawrence
The Buccaneers by Iain Lawrence
Martin Hyde by John Masefield
The Two Arrows by Cornelia Meigs
Wind in the Chimney by Cornelia Meigs
Captured by the Mohawks by Sterling North
The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy
The Elusive Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy
Eldorado by Baroness Orczy
The Oregon Trail by Francis Parkman
Thaddeus of Warsaw by Jane Porter
Calico Captive by Elizabeth George Speare
The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
Modern (1850-present)
Laddie: A True Blue Story by Gene Stratton-Porter
Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Long Walk by Slavomir Rawicz
Long Wharf by Howard Pease
Shipwreck by Howard Pease
In Ole Virginia by Thomas Nelson Page
Two Little Confederates by Thomas Nelson Page
Red Rock: A Chronicle of Reconstruction by Thomas Nelson Page
Gay-Neck by Dhan Gopal Mukerji
The Golden Name Day by Jennie Lindquist
The Little Silver House by Jennie Lindquist
The Crystal Tree by Jennie Lindquist
The Victory Garden by Lee Kochenderfer
Big Red by Jim Kjelgaard
Mary Ellen by May Justus
The Other Side of the Mountain by May Justus
Hitty: Her First Hundred Years by Rachel Field
Winter Journey by Elsa Falk
The Terrible Wave by Marden Dahlstedt
Twenty and Ten by Clare Huchet Bishop
The Little House books by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan
Wagon Wheels by Barbara Brenner
By the Great Horn Spoon! by Sid Fleischman
Rifles for Watie by Harold Keith
Hattie Big Sky by Kirby Larson
Bound for Oregon by Jean Van Leeuwen
Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two by Joseph Bruchac
Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
The War That Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze by Elizabeth Foreman Lewis
The Little Riders by Margaretha Shemin
A Long Walk to Water: Based on a True Story by Linda Sue Park
I Want My Sunday, Stranger by Patricia Beatty
Wait for Me, Watch for Me, Eula Bee by Patricia Beatty
The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan
Schoolroom in the Parlor by Rebecca Caudill
Thee, Hannah! by Marguerite de Angelo
The House of 60 Fathers by Meindert De Jong
Ironhead by Mel Ellis
Prairie Winter by Elsie Kimmell Field
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell
The Man Without a Country by Edward Everett Hale
Katrina: The Story of a Russian Child by Helen Eggleston Haskell
Song of the Pines: A Story of Norwegian Lumbering in Wisconsin by Walter Havighurst
Kon-Tiki:Across the Pacific by Raft by Thor Heyerdahl
North to Freedom by Anne Holm
Up a Road Slowly by Irene Hunt
Lucinda, a Little Girl of 1860 by Mabel Leigh Hunt
Smoky the Cowhorse by Will James
Trapped by Roderick Jeffries
Komantcia by Harold Keith
Anna and the King of Siam by Margaret Landon
Strawberry Girl by Lois Lenski
Shoo-Fly Girl by Lois Lenski
When the Typhoon Blows by Elizabeth Foreman Lewis
The Open Range Men by Lauran Paine
Elli of the Northland by Margaret Ruthin
The Good Master by Kate Seedy
The Silver Sword by Ian Serraillier
The Little Riders by Margaretha Shemin
All-of-a-Kind Family by Sydney Taylor
